Arts & Entertainment

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    May 16, 2010

    Books Q & A: History in the making

    Loretta Krupinski brings to life Maine waterfronts as they once were.

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    May 16, 2010

    Night of nights

    Prom season's here and the kids are, as usual, stylin.'

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    May 16, 2010

    Oratorio Chorale takes on a ‘Whale’ of a challenge

    The Oratorio Chorale has adopted an aesthetic of adventure. It doesn’t shrink from challenges. The community chorus will be tested this week when it presents composer Dominick Argento’s “Jonah and the Whale” at Falmouth Congregational Church. “This is a very big effort. It’s a demanding piece of music,” said Peter Frewen, the chorale’s director for […]

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    May 16, 2010

    Review: Sheer poetry: the paintings of Nancy Morgan-Barnes

    The irony of poetry is that it must be presented literally verbatim for its rhythms, forms and gestures to fairly unfurl their complexity and subtly colored content. Stories, on the other hand, are the stuff of prose — so any retelling is valid. Nancy Morgan-Barnes’s painting “Little Red Riding Hood,” now on view in Greenhut’s […]

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    May 16, 2010

    Book Review: When four wives just aren’t enough

    The author's hilarious tale has roots in his family's Mormon history.

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    May 16, 2010

    In the Arts: ‘Vernal Pools’ exhibit evokes the sweet haste of spring

     “Vernal Pools” at the Atrium Art Gallery at Lewiston-Auburn College is the primavera of the spring season. I offer such redundancy as an affectionate bow to an exhibition that softly stirs the biologic soup of spring. Vernal pools — more saucers than bowls — appear almost as much from memory as in fact, stay around […]

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    May 16, 2010

    Signings, etc.

    Howard Frank Mosher

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    May 16, 2010

    ‘Bach at Leipzig’ wraps up Portland Stage season

    – From staff reports Portland Stage Company wraps up its season with the final week of the comedy “Bach at Leipzig,” a fast-paced, funny and mostly true retelling of the time when a group of musicians bypassed by history joust for the most coveted musical post in all of Europe. The story is set in […]

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    May 9, 2010

    Arts Dispatches

    PORTLAND Candidates for governor series at Aucocisco Galleries Aucocisco Galleries, 89 Exchange St., continues its series of talks by gubernatorial candidates, Meet the Governor: Maine 2010 Gubernatorial Candidates on Maine Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy. The speaking series focuses on issues related to arts and culture in Maine. The brown-bag lunch series will continue […]

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    May 9, 2010

    Book Review: Ecologist fights use of harmful chemicals

    Sandra Steingraber argues that we should become 'carcinogen abolitionists.'